Alsa on ESC K7S5A (Sis 7012)

[Vanellus]

I have been trying to install the alsa drivers for the Sis 7012 chipset. I have set up alsa to use the intel8x0 driver. However, I have all the alsa-drivers compiled (as was suggested in some of the posts). Also, the settings of my kernel seem to be OK. When starting up alsa I get:

[bonsaikitten]

Your kernel seems to have the i810 module compiled in. Try recompiling the kernel with sound modules only.

You need soundcore, ac_97 and i8x0_sound or something like that (sorry, don't remember the exact names of the modules)

hth,
bonsaikitten

[Vanellus]

That's exactly what I thought. But I am sure that I compiled the kernel with the soundcore module only. Anyway, I recompiled the kernel with the soundcore module, and the ICH model (indeed the i8x0_audio module), which should work for my board. Still I cannot load this module (even when I load the soundcore module and the ac97 module before). The error is the same... So, either there is something that blocks it (but what???) or the kernels that I compile don't get installed -- I follow the instructions on the ALSA howto page to compile kernels. Furthermore, the kernel and modules compile without any problems. Any other suggestions? (for example, how to unload this driver?)

[bonsaikitten]

After make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install -
did you copy your kernel to /boot/bzImage (or similar) ?

if using lilo, did you run lilo?

Did you compile into the kernel or as module? (Your wording is ambiguous)

If modprobe works, what keeps you from using sound?

[Vanellus]

Thank you!!